For many, the Christmas holidays are a festive and joyous occasion – a time to spend time with family and friends and rejoice in the simple acts of food and conversation with our loved ones, looking back on the year and the ups and downs. For others though, it is a period of intense pain, […]
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It’s a question I’m often asked. Why do some authors prefer to write racy thriller novels, while others like myself prefer to write sweet and wholesome romance novels? And I guess it comes down to what we are comfortable penning as authors. After all, if we are not comfortable writing explicit sex scenes or lurid […]
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As always I like to keep my faithful readers up to date with my latest clean romance novels and following the launch of Sweet Redemption, which was the second in the Bluff Bay series set on the East coast in a fictitious town in Maine, my next love story is different in several ways. First, […]
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I am delighted and proud to announce that the second book in the Bluff Bay series of sweet and wholesome romance novels is due for release on the 19th of November this week. Like many of my other romance novels, it is a second chance love story with a small child. It is a large […]
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One of the questions I am often asked is where or how I develop the plots for my sweet and wholesome romance novels, and it’s not an easy one to answer as they come from many different sources and places. As many of you will I’m sure know, I was one of the fortunate few […]
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When starting out as an author of any fictional work, and not simply romance, one of the things you have to discover as an author is to find out what approach suits you and your personality and broadly speaking I believe there are two specific groups. Authors either fall into the category of a detailed […]
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As romance authors, we are constantly searching for inspiring quotes or for ways for our heroes and heroines to express their love for one another in expressive ways. Yes, we have fluttering and pounding hearts, a racing pulse, and weak at the knees responses, but these can be a little tedious at times so where […]
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Sweet and wholesome romance Have you ever noticed the curious relationship we authors have with time? If we have plenty of it available, we find we are less productive. We search out activities to fill the day and before we know it our precious time has gone. Yet give us a snatched hour late at […]
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If you’ve never heard of the Elizabethan poet and courtier, Sir Philip Sydney I would urge you to look him up. He had a short and interesting life and in his time wrote some wonderful love sonnets, a total of 108. Here is a short excerpt from one called Arcadia, and again wonderful inspiration for […]
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Imagine the scene. You are sitting at your desk, coffee in hand, staring at a blank screen or sheet of paper. Chapter One blinks back, taunting you to write. You may not even have the characters fully formed but have an idea of the novel you wish to create. And then….you sit and stare as […]
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